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Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of
justice at local and global scales although the number of their
violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the
surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward
discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs,
but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering
interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human
rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to
imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also
formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and
shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they
explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary
conversations about the origin and language of human rights,
personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international
solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination
of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is
essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from
the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human
faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to
the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of
human rights.
Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of
justice at local and global scales although the number of their
violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the
surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward
discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs,
but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering
interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human
rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to
imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also
formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and
shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they
explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary
conversations about the origin and language of human rights,
personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international
solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination
of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is
essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from
the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human
faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to
the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of
human rights.
Mediale Bezugnahmen wie Intertextualitat, Metamedialitat,
Translation, Umschrift oder Umkodierung von Text- und Bildformaten
koennen als Medienprothetik aufgefasst werden: Wenn Marshall
McLuhan Medien grundsatzlich als extensions of man versteht, so
beinhaltet dies die zunehmende Ausweitung koerperlicher oder
medialer Begrenztheit mittels technologischer Innovationen. Als
derart verstandene Prothesen koennen Medien Defizite indes nicht
nur kompensieren, es kann auch zu Widerstanden gegen die mediale
UEbertragung kommen. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes beleuchten den
kulturkritischen Hintergrund der McLuhanschen Medientheorie (Freuds
Prothesenlogik), und in zahlreichen Fallstudien loten sie die
Bandbreite der medialen Kollisionsmoeglichkeiten an Beispielen aus
Literatur, Comic, Film, bildender Kunst, Fotografie, Musik, Theater
und Internet aus.
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